Stony Brook doc tests new cancer treatment

A Stony Brook University Medical Center surgeon has become the first doctor to treat pancreatic cancer using electrical fields to poke holes in tumors.
Dr. Kevin Watkins, chief of the hospital’s upper gastrointestinal and general oncologic surgery group, performed the operation in December of 2009, according to Stony Brook. The maker of the NanoKnife, Queensbury, N.Y.-based ...